Ten Hills Farm : The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North / C. S. Manegold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manegold, C. S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--Massachusetts--History.

Slave trade.

Slavery--Massachusetts--History.

Slavery.

Enslaved persons--Massachusetts--Social conditions.

Enslaved persons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : 24 halftones. 5 maps.

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Ten Hills Farm tells the powerful saga of five generations of slave owners in colonial New England. Settled in 1630 by John Winthrop--who would later become governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony--Ten Hills Farm was a six-hundred-acre estate just north of Boston. Winthrop, famous for envisioning his 'city on the hill' and lauded as a paragon of justice, owned slaves on that ground and passed the first law in North America condoning slavery. In this mesmerizing narrative, C. S. Manegold exposes how the fates of the land and the families that lived on it were bound to America's most tragic and tainted legacy. Challenging received ideas about America and the Atlantic world, Ten Hills Farm digs deep to bring the story of slavery in the North full circle--from concealment to recovery. Manegold follows the compelling tale from the early seventeenth to the early twenty-first century, from New England, through the South, to the sprawling slave plantations of the Caribbean. John Winthrop, famous for envisioning his "city on the hill" and lauded as a paragon of justice, owned slaves on that ground and passed the first law in North America condoning slavery. Each successive owner of Ten Hills Farm--from John Usher, who was born into money, to Isaac Royall, who began as a humble carpenter's son and made his fortune in Antigua--would depend upon slavery's profits until the 1780's, when Massachusetts abolished the practice. In time, the land became a city, its questionable past discreetly buried, until now. Challenging received ideas about America and the Atlantic world, Ten Hills Farm digs deep to bring the story of slavery in the North full circle--from concealment to recovery.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Letter from Antigua

Part I. The Puritan

1.The Land

2. Ten Hills Farm

3. Possession

Part II. The Immigrant

4. The King's Forester

5. Favors to the Few

6. Happy Instruments to Enlarge Our Dominions

7. Slavers of the North

8. Come Up in the Night with Them

9. You May Own Negroes and Negresses

Part III. The Master

10. Antigua

11. Crime, Punishment, and Compensation

12. Homecoming

13. The Benefactor

14. Luxury on the Grandest Scale

Part IV. The Petitioner

15. We Shall Not Be Slaves

16. Within the Bowels of a Free Country

17. Death Is Not the Worst of Evils

18. Reparations

Part V. The Legacy

19. City upon a Hill

Afterword. Letter from Antigua, Easter Monday, 2008

Note to Readers

Notes on Sources

Acknowledgments

Illustrations

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9781400831814

1400831814

OCLC:

979968445